Poland / 12-10-2015

Jewish cemetery dug up in quest for gold

Głowaczów - Residents of a small Polish village that was once the
home to a vibrant Jewish community have been digging up the graves of their
former neighbors in a quest for buried gold, according to an Israeli Holocaust
commemoration NGO.

Jonny Daniels, the executive director of From The Depths, said he had
received several calls from residents of the Polish town of Głowaczów, reporting
that graves had been dug up.

“As a foundation working on
the ground in Eastern Europe, we often heard the stories of locals ‘digging for
gold’ in the Jewish cemeteries, we even had mayors of cities ask us if the
rumor that Jews were buried with their gold was true,” he said.